Apparatus for cutting cheese.



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(Application filed. Aug. 7,1900.

(No Model.)

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IJNTTED STATES ERIC GUSTAF TI-IUNELL, OF GOTENBORG, SWVEDEN.

APPARATUS FOR CUTTING CHEESE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 674,803, dated May 21,1901.

Application filed August 7,1900. Serial No. 26,181. (No model.)

To ctZ whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERIC GUSTAF THUNELL, a subject of the King of Swedenand Norway, residing at Gotenborg, Sweden, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Apparatus forCutting Cheese; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, whichform a part of this specification.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for cutting cheese whichis so arranged that the knife simultaneously with its cutting motion isautomatically approached to that surface of the cheese from which theslices are to be cut off, whereby slices of the same thickness arealways obtained, it being necessary during the cutting to only carry theknife in a certain direction without especially directing the same.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 shows the cheese-cutting apparatus,partly from the side and partly in section. Fig. 2 illustrates the samefrom above in section through a; y in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows the knifefrom the top.

The apparatus is provided with a bed-plate a, serving as support for thecheese I) to be out. In the middle of the plate there is secured astandard or upright 0, over which the cheese is passed after a suitableopening has been bored out in the middle. The upright, as illustrated inthe drawings, is fashioned as a screw, upon which an arm d, pro- Ijecting at a right angle from the upright, is

This arm supports the knife 8, se-

screwed.

cured to the arm and parallel with the latter in such a way that a spaceis formed between the arm and the knife, as shown. The arm is then firstscrewed down on the upright, so that the knife c rests on the cheese,and the screwing of the arm d being then continued the knife must enterinto the cheese and cut off a slice in proportion to the feeding down onthe upright, such slice having sufficient. space to enter between theknife and the arm d. In this way by means of the continued rotation ofthe knife-arm around the upright the whole cheese is cut down to thebed-plate a. To prevent the cheese turning on the upright during thecutting, the bottom plate a can be provided with a number of uprightpoints f, holding the cheese.

On the upper end of the upright there may when the arm has been screwedon be screwed a handle g, by means of which the apparatus is held duringthe cutting.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of thisinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare thatwhat I claim is Acheese-cutter comprisingastationary support for thecheese, a screw-threaded standard rising therefrom and adapted to passaxially through the cheese to be cut, and a knife provided at one endwith a handle and at the other end with a nut fitting the screw-threadon said standard, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERIC GUSTAF TI-IUN ELL.

Witnesses:

H. J. RosENoUIs'r, SwEN. FRANK.

